Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients are influenced by extreme stories they see on social media. Testing children with atopic dermatitis for ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A "placebo effect" can cause a diverse array of symptoms in children when undergoing food allergy testing, according to the results of a study published in the current ...

What is the earliest reasonable age to achieve adequate allergy testing results? Is radioallergosorbent test (RAST) equivalent to skin testing at an early age? For immunoglobulin (Ig) E-mediated ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . More Black children with eczema and food allergy had no testing done to confirm the food allergy diagnosis ...

The use of virtual reality (VR) during skin prick testing (SPT) significantly reduced procedural anxiety, fear, and pain in children while achieving 100% compliance compared with standard care.

Researchers at the University of Bern and Bern University Hospital have developed a test to simplify the diagnosis of allergies. Its effectiveness has now been confirmed in clinical samples from ...

A real-world study from UVA Health Children's Hospital has shown that early peanut oral immunotherapy (epOIT) is safe and effective in desensitizing young children to peanuts. 27 children completed ...

New research suggests that medical advice introduced a decade ago has successfully helped 60,000 children avoid this life-threatening allergy. “I can actually come to you today and say there are fewer ...

A drug that binds to allergy-causing antibodies can protect children from dangerous reactions to accidentally eating allergy-triggering foods, a new study found. A drug can make life safer for ...